Hi Folks,
I've tried the various recommendations on the Teslamotorsclub.com, JoeButcrack website etc. to open my Frunk Tesla Y 21' at 10F last night & release the solenoid/latch. The Allen wrench didn't work, coat hanger, crowbar, large screwdriver with cinder-block counterweight, blow dryer, rebooting computer, removing front bumper 1" pop-out & applying 12V, second person pushing/pulling (and a few others too silly to mention). What *did* work was leaving the car facing into the sun at a currently tropical 26F to gradually heat the frunk over several hours (even though the blow dryer & jumbo heat gun didn't work last night). Once the hood opened, I removed the plastic panel above the latch & drowned the cable-solenoid & catch mechanism in WD-40. Now open-close-open-close - yeah. Moral to the story: Don't put *anything* important in the frunk especially when below freezing! There's a bunch of stories on the net of folks getting to the *airport* and leaving their suitcase or *meds* in the stuck frunk - then paying the stealership bigga bucks to fix. Also last night around 10F with the wind howling, I couldn't open *any* of the door (cute recessed) *frozen* handles. The Bolt and Leaf with *normal* door-handles - no-problemo. Hot water dumped on the driver's side door handle fixed that. It would be nice when designing a car in a warm climate (like California) to cold test various mechanisms that will be a PITA when frozen. Not to point out just negative Tesla stuff - it's our favorite long road trip car! Just some nit-picky improvements would be nice; rear windshield wiper, above, knobs etc. Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh REEVA Demo: <http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0> http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0 <https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/a88920376f864ecabaed843dd89 75b8d/signature> Fincastle Solar Weather Station -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20240121/3fbab32e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
